Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

There was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the attack of 9/11, I've never said that and never made that case prior to going into Iraq.

George W. Bush

The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

Ferdinand Mount

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

Ferdinand Mount

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

Fareed Zakaria

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

Fareed Zakaria

On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

Hugo Chavez

For us Catholics, John Paul II will be remembered as a traveling Pope ... and we should also remember he preached world peace. When the United States invaded Iraq, for example, John Paul II said it was an illegal and immoral act.

Hosni Mubarak

Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.

So we could be looking at at least a month without Iraqi oil.

Cindy Sheehan

So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.

Donald Rumsfeld

The terrorists won't win. The Iraqi people will win,

I've made my decision. We will stay on the offensive. We will stand with the people of Iraq and we will prevail,

Sophisticated systems such as the SAM-6 missile can be moved very easily. The Iraqis do that, and the Serbs do it as well.

a very positive and constructive role in the formation of the Iraqi government.

As long as there is no government, Iraqis tend to view the situation as one of occupation.

This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.

Scott McClellan

It would be wrong to suggest that he (Bush) was saying that there would still be substantial number of troops in Iraq after he is out of office. That is not he was asked. That is not what he was talking about.

We will withdraw from Iraq when the job is done, not before,

Don Evans

I'm not scared here, ... I feel very safe here, quite frankly. And I'll tell you what else -- the people of Iraq are not scared.

Richard Engel

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

The administration seems like it's preoccupied with a lot of other issues from Iraq (to Hurricane) Katrina, the economy.

The nature of the North Korean nuclear question and the Iraqi issue is different,

David Crane

It really has to be seen by the people of Iraq that's who this is for and about that justice is going to take place. If they perceive that this is not going to happen, that's where this will unravel.

Bill Schneider

It's all Iraq. In 50 years, 2004 will be known as the Iraq election.

This is totally new for the Iraqi legal system and these are not just any old trials.

George H. W. Bush

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

Paul Wolfowitz

In recent days, the Syrians have been shipping killers into Iraq to try to kill Americans -- we don't welcome that,

In no way is that positive for the administration in the fall. We are going to be in Iraq at the same time. It's war and the (slowing) economy. That has to be negative for the administration.

In three years, 61 people have been killed in Iraq on journalistic duties.

Janeane Garofalo

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

Janeane Garofalo

What has Iraq done to us?

Harsha Bhogle

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Jesse Ventura

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.